Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1A

Columbia Circuit vacated the anti-blocking and anti-discrimination aspects of the Open

Internet Order. Netflix saw its share price drop by 5% on the morning of the news and by

13% from its pre-Christmas peak as analysts envisioned “hundreds of millions of dollars in

data subsidies” (

SNL Kagan, 2014b). This followed an early January announcement by

AT&T allowing content providers the ability to pay for customers’ data use, a clear exam-

ple of behavior such regulations were trying to prevent. Zero-pricing was clearly under

threat.

In March 2015, the FCC responded to the courts by setting strong rules in favor of net

neutrality (

FCC, 2015). These included regulating broadband Internet access providers

under Title II of the Communications Act, giving ...